The Feds are investigating a California biotechnology company for inadequate care of thousands of goats and rabbits, and hiding hundreds of animals from inspectors for years. Experts say the case reveals major weaknesses in animal welfare law.

John Hagmann, a doctor who taught battlefield medicine, is accused of sexually assaulting his students and forcing them to inject each other with drugs. Hagmann was a no-show at his misconduct hearing Friday. Warning: This post contains graphic details of the alleged sexual abuse.

A new study shows how to turn ordinary brewers yeast into a biological factory for producing opiates. Some scientists want to use this technology to make better painkillers. But other researchers — and the FBI — warn that this could lead to people brewing heroin at home.

GlaxoSmithKline and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have a 50-50 partnership in the new company. These sorts of public-private science efforts are tricky to manage, but likely to grow as government funding of research drops, experts say.

A Chinese research team has tweaked a gene in a handful of human embryos. The controversial experiment seems likely to prompt calls for a moratorium on engineering human embryos, even as scientists study similar DNA fixes in animals.

The Figure 1 app allows doctors to share and discuss graphic photos of their patients — and allows the public to gawk at them. Doctors and hospitals should be worried about the app’s legal and ethical risks, experts say. Warning: Graphic images.

“I’m proud of the fact that basically you have had an administration in this place for six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal. And I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this administration.”

Former secretary of state Kate Brown replaced four-term Gov. John Kitzhaber on Wednesday after he stepped down amid criminal ethics investigation. In doing so, Brown becomes the nation’s first openly bisexual governor.

NSA bureaucrat Teresa Shea and her intelligence-contractor husband are worth at least $3 million, records show. She ran controversial surveillance programs for years and recused herself last year from decisions about her husband’s employer.

Powerful National Security Agency official registered “electronics” business at her home before her husband set up intelligence business there, BuzzFeed News finds. Her company owns a plane and a condo.

Only one out of ten Americans polled by Gallup rate the honesty and ethical standards of Congressional members as “very high” or “high,” ranking lawmakers just below advertising professionals and above only car salespeople on a list of twenty-two professions.

Researchers found that men were more willing to lie or bend the truth to get the best deal than women were. Their explanation: “Men’s competitive behavior, more so than women’s, appears to be motivated by situational threats to their masculinity. When men feel like they have something to prove or defend against, they become more aggressive and competitive.”